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  • Liberal Mind – Smoothing out cultural ripples

    George Rebane Used to be that America was this and not that.  We had a predominant culture that was a unique amalgam of the cultures our European immigrants brought with them.  Each succeeding wave of newcomers somehow adapted and worked their culture into what was then resident.  To be sure, cultural discrimination was already popularly…

  • International Women’s Day transmogrified (addended)

    George Rebane IWD was launched in 1917 by the American Socialist Party to oppose the war and support nascent communist movements across Europe.  Their message of ‘bread and peace' was later attributed by Leon Trotsky as the real start of the communist and socialist revolutions.  The underlying message to attract ideologically vanilla people was social…

  • ‘Those Left Behind’

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 5 February 2015.] There is no doubt that America’s income and wage gaps are real, and everyone sees it as a social problem that should not be ignored.  Both the Right and Left agree on the reading of that data, but…

  • Unclear on the Concepts

    George Rebane Politics – Purposed pandering intended to sway a wider audience under the guise of communicating with another party. The local Wrong-way Corrigan collectivists seem to have trouble untying their bundled undies.  With one side of their mouth they are continually describing our community as being “purple”, and with the other side complaining that…

  • Heidi Hall can do better

    George Rebane Ms Heidi Hall is our community’s new progressive political wannabe.  She is also a newly assigned columnist for The Union and a KVMR commentator.   She is a well-spoken, handsome looking woman with plenty of education in fields that have ‘government job’ written all over them, and true to form that is her employment…

  • Things are getting “curiouser and curiouser”

    George Rebane What price glory?  I’ve watched presidential press secretaries for decades pitch with a serious face the world according to their boss.  But something that Josh Earnest, the current Chief Lackey to our twice elected Liar-in-Chief, said rang a special bell.  The whole country is talking about Obama’s prevarication about the ISLAMIST jihad and…

  • High Tech Quotas (updated 12dec14)

    George Rebane Our high tech industry is literally the last refuge of employment meritocracy, and the increase in our quality of life it has provided is unquestionable.  That may all be coming to an end if our so-called civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson have their way.  You see Jesse and his crew have noticed…

  • Ferguson Wrap-up (8dec14 update)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 3 December 2014.] I intended this to be a wrap-up on the Ferguson riots, but sadly there is no wrap possible, because Ferguson is just the latest chapter in the marathon effort to fundamentally transform America.  So all we can do…

  • Scattershots – 26nov14

    George Rebane Schumer’s post-election epiphany.  My comment yesterday on Senator Schumer’s belated insights on Obamacare is being echoed today in various national media outlets that have added some revealing detail.  Besides the senator from New York admitting that “the law has been disastrous for Democrats”, he now, yes now, acknowledges what the rest of us…

  • Charitable Giving by Conservatives and Liberals

    George Rebane RR has reported on the many studies that show people of conservative bent vastly outspend liberals in contributions to private charities (and that, dollar for dollar, private charities are enormously more effective in helping the poor and disadvantaged than are government programs).  The intuitive reasons for that are easy to grasp, at least…

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